Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-02-04

the president will announce his views on
the subject to the cabinet at its next meet
ing on Thursday.
REGARDING THE n. P. GRANT.
A communication was recently passed
from the senate confrees on the Northern
Pacific forfeiture bill to their fellow con-
frees of the house, which is said to partake
somewhat of the nature Of a demand, more
or less peremptory, for the production of
the lost papers, and to be coupled with all
expression of intention to state the facts
publicly to the senate in case the bill is not
found or steps taken to secure new copy
Ihe senate cOnfreeS are unwilling to be
suspected of design of killing the measure
by indirection and delay. At the meeting
today, tie house cOnfreeS are reported to
have openly charged their fellows of the
senate with acting in bad faith and with
unwillingness to compromise the differ
enceS.
WHY PENDLETON RETURNED.
The New York Snn reports rumor cur
rent in that city that George II. Pendleton
has returned home to accept the treasury
portfolio. Mr.. Pendleton himself, how
ever, denies that his visit has other sig
niticance than desire for short rest, and
declares that after transacting some prl-
to Berlin.
SENATOR MITCHEII.'s REPORT.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted
an elaborate report from the committee on
transportation routes to the sea board de-
claring its belief that the interests of the
people of the Pacific and northwest imper-
atively demand: First, the speedy compile
of a hn nf
lumbia and locks upon the cascades of the
Columbia river, and it is recommended
that liberal annual appropriations be made
therefore. Second that the work OF con,
structing boat railway around the Dells
and Cello falls of the Columbia river, and
OF blasting open contracted water ways at
Ten and Three Mile rapids to a width of
800 feet, so as to secure navigable water,
should be entered upon without delay by
the United States government, and the
committee therefore recommends that 1T be
done without further preliminary survey,
and that an appropriation of $4,000 be
made at the present session of congress
for such purpose.
RELATING TO SILVER COINAGE.
The secretary of the treasury to-day
transmitted to the speaker of the house an
answer by the director OF the mint to the
house resolution relating to silver coinage
The director presents table, from which
it appears that the cost of the amount of
bullion delivered on monthly purchases
during the past fiscal year was 1924 4,3980O2,
and the face value of the coinage was
1923, ,838,9O5.
CONCERNING PENSIONS.
In reporting favorably the bill to pen
sion Walt Whitman at the rate of 1926 per
month, the house committee on invaplI
persons says the poet dedicated himself
during the war to Union care as a volun-
teer nurse of our sick and wounded SOL
diers, and his almost revolutional ministra-
tons were we'll known to citizens of Wash
ington and cf the nation. In it's adverse
report upon the senate bill granting a
pension to Mrs Logan, the committee on
invalid pensions Of the house says that
should congress pass the bill and the pre-
would increase the pension rolls
S345,0O0 annually. In majority
of the cases, as in this case no relief from
actual embarrassment or poverty would be
afforded A similar report was presented
in the case of the senate bill to increase the
pension to the widow of General Frank
Blair. The republican members of the
committee presented minority report
recommending the passage of the bill to
pension Mrs. Logan.
THE CABINET MEETING.
At the cabinet meeting to-day one of the
principal topics of discussion was the
Hawaiian treaty and the amendment made
to it by the senate